User accounts created during Experience Portal software installation

During Experience Portal software installation, the following user accounts are created for use on various systems to support Experience Portal operation and management.


System	User name	Password	Purpose
EPM web interface	User defined	User defined	The Experience Portal administrator uses this account to administer and configure the Experience Portal system.
PostgreSQL on the primary and optional auxiliary EPM server	postgres	Automatically generated	Since Experience Portal 7.0, this password is automatically generated in the database configuration file. This password is no longer user defined as in the case of previous releases. EPM uses this account to log in to the Experience Portal database to store and retrieve data. The database administrator uses this account to access the Experience Portal database to install new updates or patches and perform database backups. Note: If you make changes to the Experience Portal database, the EPM might not function properly, and data might be lost. You must then reinstall the EPM software.
PostgreSQL on the primary and optional auxiliary EPM server	User defined Default user name is: report	User Defined	This user account allows external Experience Portal servers to read the data in the tables that store report data on the Primary EPM server.
PostgreSQL on the optional auxiliary EPM server	User defined Default user name is: reportwriter	User defined	This user account can only change the data in the tables that store report data in the Experience Portal database on the Auxiliary EPM server.
Linux on the EPM server	postgres	User defined	Used to run the psql tool for interactive database access and internally used to run database processes. Note: If you make manual changes to the Experience Portal database, the EPM might not function properly, and data might be lost. You must reinstall the EPM software.
Linux on the EPM and MPP servers	avayavp	Login disabled	Used internally to run some Experience Portal processes.
Linux on the EPM and MPP servers	apache (UCID 48)	Login disabled	This account is created when the httpd RPM is installed and it is used by the Apache server.